Sarah Sterling

May 11, 2020

We recently participated in an excellent webinar hosted by Peter Klebanow from Tendrel with guest Dr. Eva Kedar on Strategies for Hosting Virtual Foru...

April 23, 2020

Small interactions can be incredibly meaningful – Viruses are so tiny–3,000 of them could line up across the period at the end of this sen...

April 22, 2020

If you’re interested in learning more about Virtual Convening Best Practices and Resources, check out our Virtual Convening Skills Lab (in partn...

April 3, 2020

In this moment of global uncertainty, countless conveners are facing decisions of whether or not to cancel or postpone their events. Whatever you deci...

We’ve tested more than a dozen new Virtual Convening Tools. Here are our Favorites.  In the age of COVID-19, it seems there is a new virtual conven...

Virtual convening is relatively new for most conveners and thinking about using it instead of having an in-person convening can be downright depressin...

March 27, 2020

Isn’t it amazing how the course of a couple of weeks (mid-March 2020 in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic as we write this) can force you to re-exam...

As we write this, the world is gripped by a global pandemic of novel coronavirus COVID-19. In this time of global uncertainty, many conveners are aski...

March 23, 2020

“Marketing is no longer about the stuff you make, it’s about the stories you tell” – Seth Godin   Storytelling is a powerful tool to ...

February 25, 2020

What’s the true purpose of bringing people together into the same space to exchange ideas and resources? The definition of the verb “to convene”...

January 27, 2020

It’s the unspoken elephant in the room at most social impact convenings; how can we justify the environmental impact of bringing people together to ...

March 8, 2017

In my two years as a professional public speaker, I have experienced two consistent trends that I’m trying to change: 1. There are still way more me...